A good mystery contains the elements of suspense and characters that feel as if they could be real. When the book can keep you up at night because you want to know what is going to happen next, then you know that you have found a winner. Tony Hillerman has never failed to deliver with his riveting plots and characters that you can almost get to know like your best friends. His book called Talking God is no exception. One of seventeen in a series that feature the popular characters Officer Jim Chee and Lt. Joe Leaphorn, Talking God has had fans following Jim and Joe all the way to the mystery's solution.
When the characters Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn return in the book Talking God, they find themselves in a mystery that takes them deep into the arena of superstition, ancient ceremonies, and tribal gods. Jim Chee arrests Smithsonian conservator Henry Highhawkfor ransacking sacred ancestral bones, while Lt. Joe Leaphorn is investigating a murder where the victim has been stripped of his identity. Little would they know that the two cases would be related and would bring them together again in their investigations. One interesting thing about Talking God is that more of it takes place in Washington DC than in the southwest.
Tony Hillerman's writings have gained him such awards as the Edgar and Grand Master Awards for mystery writing and the LA Times Robert Kirch award just to name a few. He was born in 1925, and has lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico since 1963.
